John Pollard was born in 1909 and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, in the western reaches of the Canadian wilderness. The second of seven children born to a bankrupt Irish brick manufacturer, Johnny — as ...
As Thanksgiving approached in 1938, Seabiscuit’s jockey Red Pollard watched the world from a room at Boston’s Winthrop Hospital, wondering if his leg, shattered in a racing accident four months ...
RED LODGE — A Red Lodge couple could ride to a sweeter retirement, thanks to the saddle that jockey Red Pollard rode to a win on the now-famous horse, Seabiscuit. The two horse lovers, Robert E.
Like the wounded nation that loved him, he was uncertain and half crippled. So in the depths of the Great Depression, when a knock-kneed thoroughbred named Seabiscuit rose up to outrun the elite ...
A Red Lodge couple could ride to a sweeter retirement, thanks to the saddle that jockey Red Pollard rode to a win on the now-famous horse, Seabiscuit.